Since you exist to go back in time, that bump into your Mom or Dad would actually insure that you would be born. See, once you've been born, it is impossible for you to go into the past to prevent that. It would create a paradox, and this is impossible (Dr. Brown would tell you that you could destroy the universe.)
You're not changing the past by going back in time. If you go back to 1950, then you were also there the first time around... (Which incidentally means that you were destined to go to 1950 and couldn't avoid this fate.) It kind of takes free will out of the picture, no?
No... since that time did not ever occur without you. If you go back in time 20 years and stand in the rain, that means that you must have been there standing in the rain 20 years ago.
What this thing basically says is that if there was someone there to see that you weren't in the rain, you can't go back and be there... However, without time travel or speaking to someone who was actually there at the time, it would be impossible to find out if you were there in the rain in the past. Confused yet?:P
When I had my second job at OfficeMax in 1995, we sold a 900Mhz wireless phone that turned into a cell phone once you got a certain distance away. I think it cost around $400. The only thing different between this and the "new" one is the bluetooth...
During my 8 years with a University during and after college, I learned that schools in my area (Southwestern TN) generally pay about 80% of what you would make in the real world. They claim that they make it up in benefits. While the benifits are miles better than anything I've had somewhere else, I'd rather have more money in my pocket (which is why I'm now working for a bank.)
Due to the politics at the University I worked at, performance-based raises did not exist. We got something like 1.5% every two years, and the raise was given across the board. The school was always broke, and we went several years with no raise at all.
A running gag around campus departments is that if you want to make more money at a University, then you should quit and reapply for your own job. They actually have to pay more money to get new people in than to retain the current ones...
Why does ACME Labs get so much spam? That's a good question. There are probably two main reasons.
Lots of people use "acme.com" as an example or fake address. It even appears in the HTML specifications. They shouldn't be using my domain name for this; in fact there's actually an official recommendation for which domain names to use as examples; but few people follow it. Acme.com's web site is fairly popular - we get about 25,000 visitors per day. That means our web pages are cached on a lot of people's disks. Well, one way that spammers and viruses find addresses to send to is by looking in those web cache files on machines they have taken over.
Yes, but what on earth does Microsoft have to do with this story? TFA doesn't even mention Microsoft... The commenter you replied to had it right. This is Slashdot, so any bashing of Microsoft in your post submission increases the chance that it will be posted.
In the city of Memphis, it is against the law to lose control of your car. I was driving on a rainy day, hit a puddle, and hydroplaned. I went off the road, and no other cars were involved. While I was waiting on a wrecker, the police came and gave me a ticket. On the ticket, it said: "Failure to maintain control."
Dvorak's original article predicting this was written in March of 2003. In the first sentence of the article, he said that Apple would switch to Intel processors within 12-18 months.
That 18 months was over September 2004. How is this 2004-2005???
"Perhaps most surprising, the Revolution will give players access to Nintendo's back catalog of games. That's right: you'll be able to download classic titles for the Nintendo 64, Super NES, and original NES systems -- in addition to playing your library of GameCube titles."
Do you often recompile your kernel without rebooting?
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You can do that with Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/ and it has been out for years. It uses the IE engine and its tabbed browsing options are the most granular I've seen. (You may have heard of it under its previous name: MyIE2.)
The thing about history you have to remember is... the present becomes the past. We've read about how things in print are outdated before they even leave the printing press, but the author could just as easily have written this in 1995.
That's seriously annoying. The guy writes an article on PDAs, then dismisses the past 15-18 years with one paragraph. What about the introduction of color?
Here is the history of the PDA. I've spent 940 words on calculators, 40 words on actual PDAs, and 20 words on the massive changes that have occurred in the past 15 years.
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Yeah yeah... mine is already maxed out. I was just being silly. :P
Note to self...
1. Browse old story at +5 Funny
2. Post +5 Funny comments here verbatim
3. Watch Karma go through the roof
4. ???
5. Profit!
Since you exist to go back in time, that bump into your Mom or Dad would actually insure that you would be born. See, once you've been born, it is impossible for you to go into the past to prevent that. It would create a paradox, and this is impossible (Dr. Brown would tell you that you could destroy the universe.)
You're not changing the past by going back in time. If you go back to 1950, then you were also there the first time around... (Which incidentally means that you were destined to go to 1950 and couldn't avoid this fate.) It kind of takes free will out of the picture, no?
No... since that time did not ever occur without you. If you go back in time 20 years and stand in the rain, that means that you must have been there standing in the rain 20 years ago.
:P
What this thing basically says is that if there was someone there to see that you weren't in the rain, you can't go back and be there... However, without time travel or speaking to someone who was actually there at the time, it would be impossible to find out if you were there in the rain in the past. Confused yet?
Well... no. :P
When I had my second job at OfficeMax in 1995, we sold a 900Mhz wireless phone that turned into a cell phone once you got a certain distance away. I think it cost around $400. The only thing different between this and the "new" one is the bluetooth...
That's certainly odd... I had no problems using the export function and saving as a JPEG or a GIF...
I was at the UofM. I used to work in the IT department, but evenually I moved to IT for Athletics.
During my 8 years with a University during and after college, I learned that schools in my area (Southwestern TN) generally pay about 80% of what you would make in the real world. They claim that they make it up in benefits. While the benifits are miles better than anything I've had somewhere else, I'd rather have more money in my pocket (which is why I'm now working for a bank.)
Due to the politics at the University I worked at, performance-based raises did not exist. We got something like 1.5% every two years, and the raise was given across the board. The school was always broke, and we went several years with no raise at all.
A running gag around campus departments is that if you want to make more money at a University, then you should quit and reapply for your own job. They actually have to pay more money to get new people in than to retain the current ones...
Yes, but what on earth does Microsoft have to do with this story? TFA doesn't even mention Microsoft... The commenter you replied to had it right. This is Slashdot, so any bashing of Microsoft in your post submission increases the chance that it will be posted.
In the city of Memphis, it is against the law to lose control of your car. I was driving on a rainy day, hit a puddle, and hydroplaned. I went off the road, and no other cars were involved. While I was waiting on a wrecker, the police came and gave me a ticket. On the ticket, it said: "Failure to maintain control."
Read the rest of the paragraph... They say they're just parroting Apple's marketing. The rest of the article tells a much more unbiased story.
I had better jump on Steve.Jobs while I still can...
I heard that they've got it running on the Duke Nukem Forever OS...
No, but his pet turtles have started growing rapidly, eating pizza, and carrying ninja gear...
Dvorak's original article predicting this was written in March of 2003. In the first sentence of the article, he said that Apple would switch to Intel processors within 12-18 months.
That 18 months was over September 2004. How is this 2004-2005???
From the linked page:
Do you often recompile your kernel without rebooting?
You can do that with Maxthon (http://www.maxthon.com/ and it has been out for years. It uses the IE engine and its tabbed browsing options are the most granular I've seen. (You may have heard of it under its previous name: MyIE2.)
Shhhh! This is Slashdot... Don't you know better than to say anything positive about Microsoft? *watches karma go down the crapper*
:-P
The thing about history you have to remember is... the present becomes the past. We've read about how things in print are outdated before they even leave the printing press, but the author could just as easily have written this in 1995.
That's seriously annoying. The guy writes an article on PDAs, then dismisses the past 15-18 years with one paragraph. What about the introduction of color?
Here is the history of the PDA. I've spent 940 words on calculators, 40 words on actual PDAs, and 20 words on the massive changes that have occurred in the past 15 years.
use the right tool for the job, be that Linux, mac, windows, whatever
Yes. For instance, if you're wanting to test out the effects of the latest greatest spyware, use Windows and IE to do anything on the Internet.